Hardware Companion
SR-7 is a powerful standalone audio recorder. But when paired with the teenage engineering TP-7 or other dedicated hardware recorders, it becomes the missing piece — turning raw audio files into a searchable, transcribed, AI-enriched archive.
Why it works
The TP-7 is a beautiful piece of hardware — a portable recorder that captures 24-bit WAV audio with tactile, distraction-free controls. But high-quality audio files sitting on a device are just files. They have no titles, no transcripts, no way to search through them.
SR-7 bridges that gap. Connect your recorder to your Mac, browse the audio files, and import them. SR-7 handles the rest — on-device transcription, AI-generated titles and summaries, full-text search, project organization, and Markdown export. Every recording becomes as useful as one made directly in SR-7.
TP-7 Setup Guide
The TP-7 has a dedicated memo button on its side. Press it and the device starts recording immediately — even from a powered-off state. Memo recordings always use the internal microphone and are stored separately from regular multitrack recordings, keeping voice captures neatly organised.
In later TP-7 firmware versions, the memo button still starts a recording as before, but Memo as a dedicated mode is turned off by default. We recommend enabling it in the TP-7 settings so voice memos are stored separately from other recordings — this makes it much easier to find and import them.
These quick voice memos are exactly the kind of recording that benefits most from transcription and AI summaries. Import them into SR-7 and they become searchable, titled, and summarised automatically.
The TP-7 uses MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) for file access. To enter MTP mode, connect the TP-7 to your Mac via USB-C, then turn it on while holding down the stop button. The device will boot into MTP mode, and SR-7 can browse and import audio files directly.
Note: macOS does not natively support MTP. Normally you would need teenage engineering's Field Kit app to access files — but SR-7 handles the MTP connection directly, so Field Kit is not required.
If teenage engineering's Field Kit desktop app is running on your Mac, quit it before connecting the TP-7. Field Kit manages the MTP connection and may claim the device, preventing SR-7 from accessing it. Close Field Kit first to ensure SR-7 can browse and import recordings without interference.
With the TP-7 connected in MTP mode, open SR-7 and use the USB import feature to browse all audio recordings on the device. Select the recordings to import — SR-7 will automatically transcribe them, generate AI titles and summaries, and make them fully searchable in your library. Just like any recording made directly in SR-7.
Beyond the TP-7
SR-7's USB and MTP import works with any device that exposes audio files over a standard connection — field recorders, voice recorders, Android phones, or USB drives. If your Mac can see the files, SR-7 can import them.
Supported import formats include WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, AAC, CAF, FLAC, and ALAC. Uncompressed formats are transcoded to high-quality AAC on import; compressed formats are kept as-is.
SR-7
A native audio recorder for macOS and iOS with on-device transcription, AI summaries, and a built-in MCP server.
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